Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities ...

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Dr. Maher, Dr. Spira, and Chunyu Liu join the program to discuss new research linking daily activity–rest rhythms measured by ...

The science of epigenetics shows that people who struggle with depression may actually have molecular changes throughout their bodies — that it can’t be wished away any more than you can will yourself ...

A mouse study shows that about 7% of inherited DNA methylation patterns follow non-Mendelian rules, revealing unexpected ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Researchers say epigenetic phase variation mechanism may explain microbiome resilience and variability and could guide the ...

A shot of a shingles vaccine blocks reactivation, potentially preventing the virus from triggering brain inflammation that ...

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini in Genoa (Italy), has demonstrated that ...

Diet can leave lasting epigenetic marks that reshape gene expression, metabolic pathways, and disease susceptibility across the lifespan. These diet-driven molecular changes may create a form of ...